(10 November 2020) In late October as the United States elections neared, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) published its estimate for US 3Q real GDP growth - a jaw dropping 33.1 percent. While tempting to look on in awe at the scale and speed of the economic recovery, it may not represent what you think.
You may be wondering, 'Okay, well, how strong is the US economic recovery?" Relatively speaking, if we look at the world's two largest economies—China and the United States—the US is lagging. Whereas China's economy took a single quarter to return to positive year-over-year growth after the COVID shock, the US is looking at two or even three quarters to recover, assuming the fresh spike in COVID cases does not further derail recovery. In Q3 2020, US GDP was still 3.5 percent lower than in Q4 2019; in contrast, in Q3 2020, China's GDP exceeded the Q4 2019 level by 3.3 percent.
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Which is the world's largest economy, China or the United States? As is usual in the field of economics, “It depends.” It depends on the methods used to estimate the size of an economy and to compare one economy to another. Despite modern discussions on refining the calculation of gross domestic product (GDP), the standard measure of an economy’s size and performance, to be more inclusive of economic factors that have been ignored to date, such as environmental and natural resource depletion, there is no commonly accepted alternative to GDP. There are, however, at least two commonly...
For the first time during the post World War II era, the global economy is expected to shrink due to measures in force worldwide to suppress the coronavirus, according to the IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) released on April 14, 2020. In this edition of the WEO, the IMF shortened the forecast horizon to 2021 instead of the expected 2025 horizon and limited the number of indicators available in its statistical tables because of the high level of uncertainty in current global economic conditions. In the baseline scenario—which assumes that the pandemic fades in the second half of...
In August, US manufacturing activity contracted 2.1 points from July, the largest contraction in nearly three years. According to the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) Purchasing Manufacturing Index (PMI) - commonly referred to as the ISM manufacturing index - fell to 49.1, making the US a late comer to a growing club of large economies, such as China, the Eurozone, Japan, and the United Kingdom, that have likewise reported contracting manufacturing sectors in recent months. The PMI is being dragged down by a sharp decline in new orders, non-farm employment (which increased by...
(8 April 2021) Amid COVID-19 vaccination progress and new stimulus measures from the US government, IMF economists are predicting a shining near-term future for the global economy. Here are the key takeaways from the April 2021 edition of the IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO) report: The IMF now estimates 2020 growth to have been -3.3 percent, a 1.1 percentage point upward revision from its October 2020 projection. The outlook for 2021 improved by 0.8 percentage points, to 6%, based on expected additional fiscal support in the US and other large economies and anticipated...
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